Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
by CTCWeb Editors
Odysseus' Travels
Odysseus’ journey home took him both far from the island of Ithaca and beyond the physical world. Few of the sites that he visited can be plotted in the Atlas from the list of sites available because they are imaginary.
Students can get an idea of Odysseus’ travels to actual sites by plotting the following sites.
Troy, Corfu (Scheria, the island of the Phaeacians), Ithaka.
Having plotted the actual sites Odysseus visited, students should use the text and a little guess work to manually plot other sites.
Island of the Lotus Eaters, island of Djerba off Tunisia; Island of the Cyclopes, western edge of Sicily; Aiaia, Circe’s Island, Monte Cicero, north of Terracina; Scylla and Charybdis, narrowest point between Sicily and Italy; Ogygia, Calypso’s island, below the heel of Italy.*
*The source for these site locations is “Odysseus’ Route” by Ramond V. Schoder, The Classical Journal, February - March, 1987.
